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feckless

[ UK /fˈɛkləs/ ]
[ US /ˈfɛkɫɪs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. generally incompetent and ineffectual
    inept handling of the account
    feckless attempts to repair the plumbing
  2. not fit to assume responsibility

How To Use feckless In A Sentence

  • A tremor goes through me when I hear a sententious TV commentator raise the topic, because they always finish up by talking about the ‘anomaly’ that even the most feckless natural parent is allowed to breed.
  • What a metaphor for the damage done by lard-rich, time-poor, environmentally feckless modern lifestyles. Times, Sunday Times
  • She's unproductive and pointless, feckless and meaningless, she's a garbagy, no good, valueless trash deposit. Archive 2007-01-01
  • Giving complete novices the responsibility for reviving a feckless football team would, in itself, be irresponsible.
  • He was portrayed as a feckless drunk.
  • I'm reminded of those advertisements for the national lottery depicting an airhead, a feckless character, with the warning that, if we don't play, the winner could end up being that same character.
  • The strength of female characterisation is a joy - though not extended to the men, who appear merely as feckless one-dimensional sex objects.
  • Neil Labute has a reckless, bordering on feckless, talent as a writer and provocateur, taking as much pleasure burrowing into messy sex lives as a toddler with a toy spade into a sandlot.
  • He uses the word feckless in the snippet being played! Archive 2005-10-01
  • The males stand about in feckless groups until picked by a girl, who takes a pebble and drops it wherever she requires her beaux to dig a burrow.
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